Sweet Track

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies

Last modified Feb 12, 2026 11:30 AM — History

Sweet Track is an ancient timber causeway of Britain built at the end of the fourth millennium BC.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/913465646

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
51.164167, -2.826389

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Sweet Track (4000 BC - 800 BC) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.

Names:

None

Sweet Track makes connections with:

None

Sweet Track receives connections from:

None

Place type:
causeway

References:

See Further:

Wikipedia (English) Sweet Track

Related:

Wikidata Q2736549: Sweet Track

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, and Sean Gillies, 'Sweet Track: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/913465646> [accessed: 08 June 2026]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/913465646 |title=Places: 913465646 (Sweet Track) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=June 8, 2026 7:24 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}